Recent content by dhenke

Sorry for the late response and the lack of a signature. I just got AquaChek 7 test strips and the results were total alkalinity 85, pH 7.3, hardness 300, CYA 42, free chlorine between 0 and 0.5, total chlorine between 0 and 0.5. After this reading I added 2 pounds of 54% calcium hypochlorite...

Here is the results of the last time I went to the pool store and I only talked to the previous owners once and they mentioned using bleach instead of shock so I imagine they are a BBBer.

My wife and I purchased a house in January that has an in-ground pool and so far its been a battle. We've had to replace our pump and now we have some serious staining going on along one side of our pool. I've used a chlorine tab to scrub the stain but it didn't remove anything. I've used "Stain...